Posted by Andrew BrancaSaturday, September 1, 2018 at 10:00am9/1/2018 at 10:00am

Around 2:30 AM last Tuesday, a man attacked an Uber driver,
saying he had a pistol while raising his cell phone in his right
hand. He abruptly discovered that the Uber driver was willing and
able to defend himself from a deadly force attack with a lawfully
carried handgun.

Posted by Andrew BrancaWednesday, August 22, 2018 at 3:00pm8/22/2018 at 3:00pm

This week’s case is not so much a case as it is a
cautionary tale about the risks of relying upon the purported
use-of-force law expertise of others based solely on their job
title, and dangers of not you yourself being educated on that
law.

Posted by Andrew BrancaMonday, August 13, 2018 at 3:07pm8/13/2018 at 3:07pm

Michael Drejka, the 47-year old shooter of 28-year-old Markeis
McGlockton over a July 19 dispute about a handicap parking spot,
has been arrested and charged with manslaughter, reports the
Tampa Bay Times and other news sources. He is being held
on $100,000 bail in Pinellas County Jail.

Posted by Andrew BrancaFriday, August 10, 2018 at 7:00pm8/10/2018 at 7:00pm

With the “documentary” Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin
Story by Jay Z in the news, I though it worthwhile to make
this Case of the Week about the lies created by doctoring the audio
file of the call George Zimmerman made to the police moments before
he was viciously attacked...

Posted by Andrew BrancaMonday, July 30, 2018 at 4:34pm7/30/2018 at 4:34pm

It’s hard to believe, but my first post here at Legal
Insurrection was on June 5, 2013. Naturally, it was
a post covering the murder trial of George Zimmerman, after
Professor Jacobson noticed some of my comments on his own posts and
kindly invited me to contribute to the site.

Posted by Andrew BrancaWednesday, July 25, 2018 at 11:30am7/25/2018 at 11:30am

Every once in a while a federal court in the 9th Circuit hands
down an opinion consistent with the actual meaning of the Second
Amendment, and the Universe threatens to lose its mind. (Generally,
of course, any such 2A-favorable decision is shortly reversed
en banc, c’est la vie.)

Posted by Andrew BrancaSaturday, July 21, 2018 at 8:00pm7/21/2018 at 8:00pm

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri issued a statement about
the shove-shoot case. He gets a lot right in this statement,
but he also gets a lot wrong. In the interests of time (and because
I have a full-day Law of Self Defense LEVEL 1 Class to teach today
in Sacramento CA),...

Posted by Andrew BrancaFriday, July 20, 2018 at 9:00pm7/20/2018 at 9:00pm

There’s been a shooting in Florida (naturally?) that resulted over an argument about a non-handicapped person parking in a handicapped parking spot, and it was captured on a rather poor quality surveillance camera recording, according to news reports.

Posted by Andrew BrancaWednesday, July 18, 2018 at 7:00pm7/18/2018 at 7:00pm

I’m often asked to describe the most common way people screw up
their self-defense claim. The truth is there isn’t a single most
common way. Too many people manage to find an apparently infinite
number of ways to step outside the bounds of the law. Often, there
were a bunch of...

Posted by Andrew BrancaWednesday, July 4, 2018 at 5:00pm7/4/2018 at 5:00pm

This week’s case is a recent criminal trial sentencing out of
Connecticut that purportedly involves principles of
“Stand-Your-Ground,” but that in reality, of course, has nothing to
do with “Stand-Your-Ground” at all.

Three-on-one Attack Ends With Defender Convicted

The defendant in this case was Jeffrey Sumpter, 21 years old,
who was working his...

Posted by Andrew BrancaWednesday, June 27, 2018 at 9:05pm6/27/2018 at 9:05pm

Law of Self Defense Case of the Week is a
new weekly series by Andrew Branca

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This case of the week involves
the recent murder trial of a Texas man, Terry Thompson, who got
into a barehanded fight with a drunk, John Hernandez, in a Denny’s
parking lot. Thompson choked Hernandez to...

Posted by Andrew BrancaTuesday, March 27, 2018 at 7:00pm3/27/2018 at 7:00pm

Last week Idaho’s Governor Butch Otter allowed a substantive
change to the state’s self-defense law to take effect, albeit
without his own signature,
reports the Idaho Spokesman-Review and other sources. Although
Senate Bill 1313 (embedded below) mostly just summarized in statute
form Idaho’s already existing self-defense law, one provision, in
particular,...

Posted by Andrew BrancaThursday, March 22, 2018 at 9:00pm3/22/2018 at 9:00pm

Today the University of Cincinnati announced that it would settle a grievance brought by former UC police officer Ray Tensing by paying him almost $250,000 in back pay and $100,000 in legal fees he incurred, reports NBC and other sources.